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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Twin Cities, MN

December 14, 201511 counties in Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this wind advisory at Dec 14, 2015, 7:09 AM CST for 11 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2015, 7:09 AM CST (13:09 UTC)
Expired: Dec 14, 2015, 11:33 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Twin Cities, MN

Counties Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Martin County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Watonwan County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

483 
WWUS73 KMPX 141309
NPWMPX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
709 AM CST MON DEC 14 2015

...STRONG WINDS ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TODAY...

.A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...WHERE SUSTAINED NORTH WINDS
OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THIS ADVISORY
IS MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM REDWOOD FALLS TO LE SUEUR...AND
INCLUDES MUCH OF THE INTERSTATE 90 CORRIDOR.

MNZ067-073>076-082>084-091>093-142100-
/O.NEW.KMPX.WI.Y.0016.151214T1309Z-151214T2100Z/
SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-
MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...
ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...WASECA...FAIRMONT...
BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA
709 AM CST MON DEC 14 2015

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED
A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS
AFTERNOON. 

* TIMING...TODAY UNTIL 3 PM CST.

* WINDS...NORTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

* IMPACTS...DRIVING WILL BECOME DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY HIGH
  PROFILE VEHICLES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR
GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN
MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.
USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

451 
WWUS73 KMPX 141733
NPWMPX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1133 AM CST MON DEC 14 2015

...WINDS REMAINING BREEZY BUT SLOWLY DECREASING TODAY...

.THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...HOWEVER...WIND GUSTS UP
OVER 30 MPH WILL BE COMMON THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON.

MNZ067-073>076-082>084-091>093-141845-
/O.CAN.KMPX.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-151214T2100Z/
SIBLEY-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET-LE SUEUR-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-
MARTIN-FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GAYLORD...REDWOOD FALLS...NEW ULM...
ST. PETER...LE SUEUR...ST. JAMES...MANKATO...WASECA...FAIRMONT...
BLUE EARTH...ALBERT LEA
1133 AM CST MON DEC 14 2015

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS
CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. 

WINDS ARE NO LONGER REACHING ADVISORY CRITERIA.

$$

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.